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- ↑ Beekman at the Database of Surnames in The Netherlands.
- ↑ Vladimir Beekman genealogy at geni.com.
- ↑ William Benford Aitken, Distinguished Families in America, Descended from Wilhelmus Beekman and Jan Thomasse Van Dyke, Knickerbocker Press, 1912
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